Latest Posts by logicallyspeaking - Page 15

You are a history professor researching a family legend about a crime in Poland that occured Oct 10, 1582…but that date never existed, since the adoption of the Gregorian calendar meant that Oct 4 1582 was followed immediately by Oct 15 1582.

I am here to set the record straight ''

Without Ango the world of BSD would have ended a long time ago.

He literally carries the manga on his back, without him half the characters you love would be dead already.

(Chuuya, Dazai, Ayatsuji, Kyouka, Atsushi, Whole fucking Japan (Dead Apple))

He's the Swiss army knife of the story, the key to the narrative

He's the only guy who has a link with all the organizations and introduced them to us (Mimic, Order of the Clock Tower, The 7th Agency, Decays of Angels)

I don't understand people who say that Ango will die, the death of Chuuya makes more sense but a world without Ango would collapse.

(I'm not even exaggerating)

Every time there's a plot hole, guess who appears?

If we don't know what piece of the chess board he's playing it's because HE IS the board !

[dazai voice] if kunikida wants to nag like a wife he should just MARRY ME!

WhY can’t I get good dreams like this???

I was cuddling with a bunch of the sweetest cats and kittens and they followed me everywhere like a little emotional support group.

I hate that I can’t be sad about the newest bsd chapter, because my stupid, logical brain decided that the prison break arc can’t end this soon, because it wouldn’t make sense. I just want to cry about Chuuya and Fyodor, damn it!

It was just his birthday and now it’s going to be his death day? Smh . . .

If the stuff about the ada being terrorists hit the news, there are people who were taught by kunikida who are gonna see that. Like

Student 1: I just saw mr kunikida on the news

Student 2: oh that’s cool, what do you think he’s up to these days

Student 1: terrorism

Just How Rare Are Ability Users, Anyway? (I did the math.)

*whips out calculator* Well, with @scalpel-mom-mori‘s help, I may have an answer to the question that has been plaguing me since I looked into Asagiri’s worldbuilding. God help me.

Yokohama Data

So, I looked at confirmed ability users who work in Yokohama, and counting the Hunting Dogs, there are 31. If I place BSD as occurring around 2010 off of how widespread flip phones are with a few smartphones, Yokohama’s population is 3.689 million. Going off of these numbers, 0.000840336% of people are Gifted. In easier terms, 1 in every 119,000 people. 

Ah, but I have a feeling this number is still a bit high. Due to the Book and the fact that the Port Mafia and the ADA both operate out of Yokohama, there seems to be a higher than normal concentration of ability users in the city. After all, Atsushi wasn’t born there, and neither was Kenji. So, accounting for a slight skew in favor of ability users, let’s say about 1 in 120,000 people are Gifted. Plus it makes the math easier. 

Now, worldwide, there’s about 7.8 billion people. This would mean the worldwide Gifted population is about 65,000 people, which is about the population of the Cayman Islands. 

A city like NYC, with about 8.4 million people, would have around 70 Gifted. 

However, this number accounts for people with artificial abilities (Chuuya) and those who weren’t born with abilities but inherited them (Tsujimura and Kyouka). Subtracting them from the Yokohama total means Yokohama only has 28 naturally-born Gifted. 

28 Gifted out of 3.689 million means about 1 in every 131,750 people is naturally Gifted, which is still skewed in favor of ability users. 

Using these new numbers, the worldwide naturally Gifted population is somewhere around 59,203. Because of the skew, this puts the number of actual natural-Gifted closer to 59,000 or lower. 

NYC would therefore have around 64 Gifted or slightly less, depending on how unusual a city like Yokohama is (and, consequentially, how much the Yokohama data is skewed). 

Now, this is a good enough for most purposes, but I watched Dead Apple today, so let’s take a look at Shibusawa and see if his data matches up with my calculations above.

Dead Apple Data

According to Kunikida in the briefing at the beginning of the movie, 128 fog-related incidents were confirmed. The map shown basically puts these incidents at population hotspots around the world–big cities. Now, we get several shots of Shibusawa’s collection room, which shows all his ability crystals arranged in a grid.

I had to use some rough guestimation because many of the shots are at inconvenient angles and the goddamn room is circular. From what I could tell, abilities are stacked 2 deep in sections of 8 visible rows with 7 columns. There are 20 sections divided by pillars, each of which conceal a single column of 8 abilities, also stacked 2 deep. However, one section is a door, so there are only 19 sections of abilities on the first floor. 

My math went as follows: 

(8 rows * 7 columns * 2 deep * 19 sections) + (20 dividers * 8 abilities * 2 deep)

Given what is visible, it seems that there are 2,448 abilities on Shibusawa’s first floor. There’s a second floor, but there aren’t enough clear shots of it in either the movie or manga adaptation for me to guestimate with any degree of accuracy. So he really has even more than that.

To use a technical term, that’s a shit ton of abilities. If the Yokohama data is correct, that’s 4% of the world’s ability users. Again, this doesn’t even account for Shibusawa’s second floor. 

For the sake of argument, let’s just say that his smaller second floor contains half of what was on the first floor. Total, that’s 3,672 abilities, or 6% of the world’s Gifted. That’s how many people Shibusawa killed for their abilities. 

Now, he hit 128 cities according to the Special Operations Division. On average, he picked up about 28 ability users in each city (rounded down). If my math for Shibusawa is at all accurate, it actually props up my first calculation of the approximate Gifted population worldwide. Why?

That’s how many natural-born Gifteds live in Yokohama. 

*snaps calculator shut* Thank you for reading, and do please feel free to correct my math or add on. I find it highly suspicious that my math worked out so well. 

sometimes im all yesss fyodor and dazai! perfect intellectual matches! holding knives to each others' throats! reading each others' minds! creating their own code! matching each other word for word! being criminal masterminds! playing mind games and manipulating and committing war crimes! they are going to kill each other and they are going to like it!

and then sometimes im jujst like. wat if. what if,,,... fyozai,,, wat if they,,,,,,,,,,,, had the matching shirts,,,,,,,,,,, that said "im with stupid" "im stupid",,,,,, and they switched shirts depending on who'd won the daily chess game,,,,,,,,,,,,

the smallest height difference 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

*thinks abt atsusigma*

She kinda looks like the cat 😭

Is it ever confirmed in canon why Teruko is a child or is it for like . . . the obvious, logical reasons why every woman would want to stay in the prepubescent stage when fighting (i.e. no boobs or periods)? 

Chuuya: I'm proud to identify as traitorsexual. I'm attracted to traitors and traitors exclusively. Tachihara said that he was working for the Hunting Dogs all along the other day, and now I'm dreaming of kissing him under the moonlight.

Tachihara: Chuuya-san...

Chuuya, already taking off his pants: Michizou you goddamn traitor

@fivekrystalpetals I got you

raskolnikov wearing a coat in july and razumikhin going a whole winter without lighting his stove exist at opposite ends of the gay spectrum

Ango calling Chuuya by his name right before he charges off to battle the fucking dragon gives me life and makes my multi-shippin heart happy.

Bungou Stray Dogs chapter 98

You are a professional Matchbreaker. The opposite of a matchmaker, you’re hired by concerned friends, disapproving parents, jealous exes, desperate nerds, and everyone in between to break up an existing relationship from the shadows.

Bungou to alchemist chuuya nakahara: “what kind of loser gets stuck in a book”

Bungou stray dogs chuuya nakahara: during cannibalism arc; *gets stuck in a book*

I like to think that after the events of dead apple, Fyodor just. followed Dazai home to his apartment. Like Dazai didn't invite him or anything, he was just quietly following behind and then Dazai just left the door open. And they have been living together ever since. Yes they were living together during season three. When they met in the alley? They just left the house at the same time and arrived by different paths and he was like damn i was wondering where my hat went. And then Dazai gets shot and the next time he comes home, Fyodor asks how his day was like he didnt put him in the fucking hospital. He says "funny meeting you here" every time they exist together outside of their own apartment and it somehow never gets old. Atsushi walks in to ask Dazai to get up early for a meeting and the russian terrorist man who tries to kill them every other day is just standing in the kitchen in his pajamas (a shirt that says 'i'm with stupid' on it) cooking an omlet. Atsushi then closes the door and never asks Dazai about it ever.

today's teens

; asexual manga fyodor icons !! - for anon!! > fyo <33 > rb/like if using or saving!

As someone who kins both Jeremy and Kunikida, I agree. 

kunikatai but boyf riends

Sometimes I feel bad about shipping bsd characters, because what if people form where the real life authors are from feel uncomfortable? Then I remember I read fanfiction about authors from my country without the mafia au that separates real life from fiction. 

Mickiewicz to, Słowacki tamto, ale gdzie jest fandom Zemsty? Gdzie fanarty Papkina z krokodylem pod pachą? Gdzie shipperzy Rejenta i Cześnika? Gdzie fiki o dociskaniu Fredry?

Reblog, if you ship Rimlaine.

Let's build an army-

Over the years your D&D game has managed to continue with most of the original players. However, almost everyone’s life circumstances have changed drastically since they began and you now DM for a group of some of the most-powerful people on the planet.